If you've found yourself spending yearner and thirster fawning over 1980s pop videos on YouTube, and then - depending on how bad you've got it - Land Lovers english hawthorn be a more rewarding way to spend that time.
The debut album by Dublin's Padraig Cooney, 'Romance Romance' packs a sizeable nostalgia fix for those looking at to deuce decades agone and beyond, but besides has enough to intimate that Cooney will be an even better songwriter as those years languish even farther in the rearview.
Right now he can offer a short, catchy and witty ("17 and healthy" seminary students write to the NME on 'No 1 Communique', the characters on 'Modern Romance' "meet on really good footing, straight to the matter of swapping germs") album with plenteousness of DIY charm (recording locations: "two bedrooms, one living way and one hallway") and sweet guitars.
It'll produce you wonder how many other people's stuff you're missing out on, and happy that there's one name to cross off the list.
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